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Medical Opisthographs

  • Nicola Reggiani

    Nicola Reggiani teaches Papyrology at the University of Parma and is research assistant in the same discipline at the University of Udine. His researches focus on the edition of Greek papyri, on the Greek medical papyri and ancient medicine in Egypt, on Digital Papyrology.

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Abstract

The chapter discusses the cases of opisthographic papyri dealing with a medical content. According to Manfredo Manfredi’s definition of opisthograph as a papyrus roll reused to transcribe an extensive text, the focus will be on scrolls repurposed on their back side to copy Greek medical treatises, handbooks or receptaria. The analysis will consider the material features of such copies – the nature and quality of the original text, the medical genre, palaeography – in order to draw some preliminary conclusions about the relationship between reuse and genre in a highly specialized technical category of papyrus texts.

Keywords: Greek medical papyri; opisthographs; papyrus reuse; literary and paraliterary palaeography

About the author

Nicola Reggiani

Nicola Reggiani teaches Papyrology at the University of Parma and is research assistant in the same discipline at the University of Udine. His researches focus on the edition of Greek papyri, on the Greek medical papyri and ancient medicine in Egypt, on Digital Papyrology.

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Figure 1a: P.Oxy. LXXVIII 5162 (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)
Figure 1a:

P.Oxy. LXXVIII 5162 (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)

Figure 1b: P.Oxy. LXXX 5231 (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)
Figure 1b:

P.Oxy. LXXX 5231 (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)

Figure 2a: P.Oxy. VIII 1086 (© The British Library Board)
Figure 2a:

P.Oxy. VIII 1086 (© The British Library Board)

Figure 2b: P.Oxy. VIII 1088 (© The British Library Board)
Figure 2b:

P.Oxy. VIII 1088 (© The British Library Board)

Figure 3a: P.Oxy. LXXX 5248 recto (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)
Figure 3a:

P.Oxy. LXXX 5248 recto (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)

Figure 3b: P.Oxy. LXXX 5248 verso (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)
Figure 3b:

P.Oxy. LXXX 5248 verso (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)

Figure 4a: P.Oxy. LXXX 5241 recto (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)
Figure 4a:

P.Oxy. LXXX 5241 recto (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)

Figure 4b: P.Oxy. LXXX 5241 verso (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)
Figure 4b:

P.Oxy. LXXX 5241 verso (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)

Figure 5a: P.Princ. III 143 (digital picture provided by the Princeton Papyri Collection in the public domain)
Figure 5a:

P.Princ. III 143 (digital picture provided by the Princeton Papyri Collection in the public domain)

Figure 5b: P.Princ. III 114 (digital picture provided by the Princeton Papyri Collection in the public domain)
Figure 5b:

P.Princ. III 114 (digital picture provided by the Princeton Papyri Collection in the public domain)

Figure 6a: PSI II 132 (Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, PSI 132r. Su concessione del MiC. È vietata ogni ulteriore riproduzione con qualsiasi mezzo)
Figure 6a:

PSI II 132 (Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, PSI 132r. Su concessione del MiC. È vietata ogni ulteriore riproduzione con qualsiasi mezzo)

Figure 6b: SB XX 15158 (Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, PSI 132r. Su concessione del MiC. È vietata ogni ulteriore riproduzione con qualsiasi mezzo)
Figure 6b:

SB XX 15158 (Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, PSI 132r. Su concessione del MiC. È vietata ogni ulteriore riproduzione con qualsiasi mezzo)

Figure 7a: P.Oxy. LXXX 5247 recto (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)
Figure 7a:

P.Oxy. LXXX 5247 recto (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)

Figure 7b: P.Oxy. LXXX 5247 verso (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)
Figure 7b:

P.Oxy. LXXX 5247 verso (courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project)

Figure 8a: P.Tebt. II 342 (courtesy of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley)
Figure 8a:

P.Tebt. II 342 (courtesy of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley)

Figure 8b: P.Tebt. II 273 = GMP II 5 (courtesy of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley)
Figure 8b:

P.Tebt. II 273 = GMP II 5 (courtesy of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley)

Published Online: 2024-01-17
Published in Print: 2024-01-15

© 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Titelseiten
  2. Greek Literary Papyri in Context: Methodological Issues and Research Perspectives
  3. Part I Written, reused, recycled
  4. Reconstructing a Book Collection Through the Identification of a Copyist: Reused Rolls in Context
  5. Medical Opisthographs
  6. Recto and Verso in Bookrolls of Menander
  7. From Cartonnages to Cultural Contexts
  8. Part II Read, revised, studied
  9. Critical and Utilitarian Sigla in the Adespota Greek Hexameter Texts on Papyri
  10. An Oxyrhynchite Education: How to Become an Apionic Scribe
  11. ‘Problems’ at School: Mathematical Testimonies from the Fayum in the Roman Period
  12. Scroll for More: Papyrus Commentaries from Roman Oxyrhynchus and Context Clues
  13. Part III Found together
  14. Area G and the Digging of Kom Aushim
  15. The Library of the Taurinus Family (5th–6th c.): A Tentative Assessment and Interpretation
  16. List of contributors
https://doi.org/10.1515/tc-2023-0016
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Greek medical papyri; opisthographs; papyrus reuse; literary and paraliterary palaeography

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Titelseiten
  2. Greek Literary Papyri in Context: Methodological Issues and Research Perspectives
  3. Part I Written, reused, recycled
  4. Reconstructing a Book Collection Through the Identification of a Copyist: Reused Rolls in Context
  5. Medical Opisthographs
  6. Recto and Verso in Bookrolls of Menander
  7. From Cartonnages to Cultural Contexts
  8. Part II Read, revised, studied
  9. Critical and Utilitarian Sigla in the Adespota Greek Hexameter Texts on Papyri
  10. An Oxyrhynchite Education: How to Become an Apionic Scribe
  11. ‘Problems’ at School: Mathematical Testimonies from the Fayum in the Roman Period
  12. Scroll for More: Papyrus Commentaries from Roman Oxyrhynchus and Context Clues
  13. Part III Found together
  14. Area G and the Digging of Kom Aushim
  15. The Library of the Taurinus Family (5th–6th c.): A Tentative Assessment and Interpretation
  16. List of contributors
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